Stories from Around the Region
2025 Finance and Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) Highlights
Stronger Together: Advancing Economic Resilience and Sustainable Futures in the Pacific The PS Team of four including PIPSO Chairman, and reps from Niue, Samoa, and Vanuatu were given prescriptive topics under this theme. Noteworthy was “PIPSO’s revitalization and support required from members.” This gave the chairperson the opportunity to reiterate the continuing need for long...
Second Asia-Pacific Regional Review of Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Second Asia-Pacific Regional Review of Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. PIPSO representative Eve Hayden had the honor of attending an important review last week in Bangkok! She was invited to contribute as a panel member, speaking on regional priorities and how we can strengthen regional and subregional cooperation and...
PIPSO Represented at the UN GSDR Launch!
Soft-spoken and shy would be the words one would use upon first meeting Stanley Ooms, owner of Waimana Va’a, a company that manufactures fibreglass and composite products from outrigger canoes (va'a) long boats and also do tooling (moulding) for new products as per customer requirements.
PIPSO Represents the Pacific Private Sector at the Commonwealth Business Forum 2024
Rona Garae is the perfect example of an empowered woman who built her business from the ground up from sheer dedication and hard work.
Mailelani Samoa, a (business) love story
Blessings and gifts from heaven were what Kitiona and Sylvie Salanoa hoped to spread in their beloved island country when they began their business in the small kitchen of their home more than a decade and half ago. But if there is one thing you should know about Mailelani Samoa, it should be that theirs is more than a business journey, it is in fact, a love story. If Kitiona who is from Samoa had not met his Sylvie who is originally from Switzerland through mission work in Hawai’i many moons ago, then there would be no Mailelani Samoa. Sylvie admits, “When I met Kitiona then, we fell in love and that was it! Samoa became my home."
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